Chapter 1371

As for the rest, we can only wait a little longer. We can’t just work in vain to meet their needs.”

"That's true. I've given it all to them. Will we still do business?" Tong Guan also said deeply. He is the spokesperson for Duan Zhao Ji's maritime trade, so he naturally has to plan for his master. As for national affairs, haha, it's not up to the eunuchs around him, the side of His Highness Duan.

Not long after, they drove to the shipyard. The shipyard today is no longer like it was more than a year ago.

Nowadays, craftsmen and labourers alone have reached 3,500. In addition to ten large docks where ships are being built, five docks are under construction. It is expected that by the end of autumn, fifteen giant sea ships can be started at the same time.

There is another shipyard not far away, and there are many docks there, but most of them are small docks, mainly building some auxiliary ships. By the way, whenever new ships are designed, sample ships will be built there first.

After receiving praise from the old ship workers invited from Jiangnan for a lot of money, the new sailing ship designed by Wang Yang was confirmed to be not only excellent inslugging resistance, but also extremely fast, at least nearly one-third faster than the current Dasong Fu Ship and Dashi Gymnasium sailing ships.

The old driver Wan Bin ignored Wang Yang's personal letter to persuade him and immediately made a decision and directly boarded a new sailboat with a cargo capacity of 7,000 tons and a displacement of about 1,000 tons.

However, this is naturally not the largest giant ship in the Song Dynasty, because before, the Quanzhou Shipyard where Wan Bin had visited was able to successfully manufacture ocean-going giant ships with a length of more than 30 meters and a load of up to ten thousand materials, and it is called the Mulan Boat.

Wan Bin spent a huge amount of money in shipyards in Quanzhou and other places and dug up a lot of ship craftsmen from there, which made Jiaonan Port directly turn from small fishing boats to super-large shipyards that can make 7,000 or 8,000 giant ships.

After referring to the types of trees in the north, the old shipwrecks believed that there were also many woods in the primeval forests in the north as good materials for building giant ships, and there was no need to transport wood from the south to build them.

By the middle of last year, several 5,000-foot sea ships had been launched here one after another, and their quality was not inferior to that of Quanzhou Shipyard.

After Wang Yang learned the news, he thought of a problem. It seemed that the source of the ships in the Ming and Qing dynasties was concentrated in the Northeast because the ancient trees were prosperous and there were many varieties.

Among the treasure ships of the Ming Dynasty, many of the shipbuilding timber were transported from the Northeast to the Nanjing Shipyard at that time.

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After arriving at the place, Wan Bin and Tong Guan looked at the bustling dock with great enthusiasm. They could see that huge hulls were slowly forming, and around the hull were workbenches built with countless giant nanmu bamboos.

The boatmen are like dense ants, working hard, and some supervisors who are specialized in checking work progress and project quality are inspecting.

Whenever a problem is found and pointed out, it will be scored on the form they hold, and those who do both good and fast will be able to receive more bonuses.

It is precisely because of such a reward and punishment mechanism that almost no one in the Wanhong Trading Company of Guabo is willing to passively slacken off. They want to do more work. The more they do, the more money they get. Why not do it?

What's more, most workers are specially recruited from poor places, and these people are very hard-working and obedient.

"Well, this is called a sea ship. Look, it's so big, and the hull feels longer than the previous ships. It feels like a giant whale in the sea." Wan Bin admired the 7,000-foot giant ship and sighed with satisfaction.

"Yes, it seems that it is indeed much more pleasing to the big food sailboats we purchased from those big food people before, as well as the lucky boats of our Song Dynasty." Tong Guan nodded deeply and said with deep conscience.

"When this new ship is launched, see how its sea test is going. If it is excellent enough, then in the future, our Wanhong Trading Company Shipyard will mainly build such ships."

When he heard Wan Bin's meaning, he seemed to think that building a ship like dumplings was not enough and he had to continue, which made Tong Guan feel a little overwhelmed.

You should know that even a ship with a thousand materials cost at least 1,300 guan, while a ship with a five thousand materials cost about 20,000 guan. As for the largest ship with a seven thousand materials, the price will almost double. After all, the larger the ship, the material and even the labor consumed are an exaggerated number.

"Shopkeeper Wan, we are just doing business. What do we need so many ships for?"

"What do you think is our boats capable of?" Wan Bin raised his eyebrows, as if he was very disdainful of Tong Guanzhi's words. "Do you know, do you know how many ships are those big food fleets and one ocean-going fleet?

There were more than a dozen ships in the smallest, and dozens of ships in the most. I remember that time Wan saw a fleet of Dashi Ocean entering Quanzhou Port. There were 34 ships, of which the same as the five thousand large ships were nearly twenty.

"And now, if we add any available ships together, it is not enough for this number. Do you know that Wan can make more than ten big ships with such 7,000 materials by traveling to Japan? If I can have twenty 5,000 materials sea ships, even if it takes twice as much time to sell goods in the Japanese area, it will be worth it."

"Do you know why those great cannibals are willing to take risks and travel thousands of miles to our Song Dynasty to do business? That's because every time they run back and forth, they will get a hundred times the profit."

"A hundred times the benefit!" Tong Guan's voice suddenly increased by one octave. He stared at the old driver blankly, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

"That's natural, otherwise, who would be willing to take his life seriously? It would be amazing to do business here, with a round trip of at least three times the profit, or ten times the profit, which is already awesome. Unfortunately, compared with those big food merchants, what are we worth..."

Speaking of this, Wan Bin couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion. Damn, the world is so big, and there are all kinds of wonders. In the past, Wan Bin already felt that his Wan family's business was considered a super rich man in the Song Dynasty, but compared with those Dashi merchants who came from thousands of miles apart, it was still a bit too much to see.

After hearing Wan Bin's words, Tong Guan didn't know how to describe his mood at this moment except for smashing his tongue. He made so much money in one trip.

Even if more than ten large and small ships on my side run away, the fur and local products they get will be sold out, and after deducting the cost, they will be able to earn more than 100,000 yuan.

Originally, Tong Guan thought it was quite good, but after listening to Wan Bin's words, Tong Guan realized that he really underestimated the huge profits of maritime trade.
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